Yvette Alberdingk Thijm

Human rights activist
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm helps activists use video and technology to protect and defend human rights.

Why you should listen

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm leads WITNESS.org, a global team of human rights activists who help anyone use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. WITNESS supports marginalized and vulnerable communities to expose their truths, counter harmful and abusive narratives, and mobilize their communities to build a just world. Yvette believes that right and power to tell your own story is where dignity, justice, and equality begins. 

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm’s TED talk